Thursday, November 19, 2015

Black chocolate benefits for the beauty

Hellos girls,
Today's post is about dark chocolate benefits for the beauty and health. but I'm gonna focus in its benefits for the hair.
Chocolate therapy is a treatment that is very popular in beauty because of the discovery of the potent benefits of cocoa for the skin, which serves to hydrate and nourish in depth. However, chocolate is a natural product that has proved too great for maintaining for the healthy hair and incredibly soft feel. This is thanks to the multitude of components such as vitamin B1 and minerals like magnesium, which is ideal to provide greater elasticity to the hair. If you want to take advantage of all the properties of cocoa in the following article I gonna show you how to make a chocolate mask for hair, the solution that suits all hair types.
Chocolate: Benefits for your hair. Chocolate has been one of the products that has revolutionized cosmetics world in recent years thanks to its many properties. Chocolate therapy is very popular because it moisturizes the skin, used to combat cellulite, provides elasticity and improves blood circulation. But chocolate is not only to care for our skin, it has also been found to be very beneficial to nourish our hair, especially for dry and damaged, cocoa provide a healthy and velvety.
Chocolate is a good ally on an emotional level, and that makes us feel well, thanks to a substance called serotonin, which is the hormone responsible for happiness and relaxation. In addition, some experts have claimed that chocolate is beneficial for the heart.

Minerals
Vitamin B1 - which meets the nutritional and moisturizing, ideal for hair and scalp function.

Magnesium- which gives it antioxidant effects that provide elasticity to the hair.

Theobromine - naturally stimulating circulation that supplies oxygen to the tissues of the scalp.

Regenerate hair cells
Cocoa helps hair growth by encouraging cell regeneration. Therefore, chocolate consumed daily will help the scalp receives more oxygen and blood, which will help to grow faster and stronger.

Improves the appearance of hair
Cocoa can also make your hair look much brighter. To do this you must prepare a mixture of chocolate, yogurt and honey, which have to apply on your hair and leave it there with a plastic cap for about an hour. After that wash your hair with cold water and dry it. You will see that your hair shines more, plus it more silky and manageable.

Attenuates expression lines
Eating chocolate can help you reduce expression lines in the face. Cocoa helps reduce production of the hormone that causes stress, which in turn keeps people relaxed and happy. Also, the chocolate helps produce more collagen, which keeps the skin young. For this you can apply masks based on black chocolate. An excellent option is to mix this product with any face cream or chocolate mixed with honey and apply on face. You can see some homemade chocolate facial mask in this post.

Moisturizes the skin
The black chocolate is perfect to moisturize the skin, mainly in people who suffer from excessive dryness. Chocolate contains iron, calcium and vitamins A, B1, C, D and E which are essential to moisturize the skin. We recommend drinking a cup of hot chocolate, which can be prepared with brown sugar and vanilla.

In a saucepan mix the water, cornstarch and cocoa powder. Make sure that all ingredients are well dissolved to avoid lumps. Stirring constantly, keep the fire until notice that the mixture is homogeneous (neither too thin nor too thick). Turn off the heat. When the mixture is warm, in a plastic container or blender, add the remaining ingredients and mix. With clean hair, apply the mixture. Avoiding the scalp. Put a cap and leave it for 10 to 20 minutes. Rinse, and if deemed necessary, condition. Finalize as you want

To make this mask place all ingredients in a blender until it forms a uniform cream.
Wash your hair with shampoo and then rinsing, remove excess water with a towel and apply this cream. Cover your head with a plastic cap and leave the cream to act for 20 minutes. Then wash your hair with cold water.
Repeat this homemade mask once a month or whenever you feel that the hair is lacking of shine and hydration.

Thoroughly mix the cornstarch with cold filtered water. Then add the cocoa powder, or melted chocolate. No problem if not dissolve very well, because the cocoa dissolve on the stove.
Take this mixture to low heat, stirring always, without neglecting the mixture on the stove. I use a wooden spoon to stir it. The more you stir over low heat, smoother will be the mixture.
When it reaches the consistency of a cream, turn off the heat.
Transfer the cream into a container and allow to cool. Add the glycerin, vegetable oil and hydrating mask and mix.
Apply to damp washed hair.
Wait act for thirty minutes, rinse with water and seal with conditioner. End as you want.